When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as snow in Salmon.
Ver. 14. When the Almighty scattered kings in it] i.e. In the wilderness as they passed; or in Canaan which they possessed, according to Psalms 68:1. Or, scattered kings for her, that is, for his Church, or for her that tarrieth at home, Psalms 68:12, a periphrasis of the Church, in the times of primitive persecution especially, till the Almighty scattered those persecuting princes. Some of the Jewish doctors understand it to be Gog and Magog.
It was white as snow in Salmon] Or, she was white as snow in Salmon; not only as the wings of a dove, but glorious and glittering as snow on that high hill, Judges 9:47,48. At the top of the Alps nothing is to be seen but snow, which hath lain there beyond the memory of man, and, as some say, ever since the flood. The same may be as true of Salmon, which some here take for a noun substantive common, and render it, albesces in caligine, thou shalt wax white in darkness. The old Emperor Andronicus, lighting upon this verse in his psalter, and applying it to himself, was much settled and satisfied concerning his troubles (Turk. Hist. fol. 164).